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...also came to a home in the Carpenter Woods section of Philadelphia, To a neighborhood full of kids, where you'd play ball on the street and come home when your mom would yellphia. I was one of those kids, with the average boy's life of schoolboy, scrimmager, moviegoer and TV gawker, But I also read the magazines that came through our mail slot, like Time, Reader's Digest, the Saturday Evening Post and, yes, The New Yawker. I enjoyed the humor in these magazines more than any child of my acquaintance, And of all the humorists, Ogden Nash...
...aftermath of Steinhauser's killings, there have been endless discussions about how to stop Germans from getting hold of firearms. What we should be asking is, How can we prevent a schoolboy from feeling so alone with his problems that he feels the only way out is to shoot others? If we can tackle the human aspects of this situation, it will no longer be that important whether people may own guns. JULIE BEYST Cologne, Germany...
...Zahoor Ahmed Sheikh faced that bleak reality when their son Khalid was 16. Khalid was looking up to some dangerous role models: a few older friends who had gone across the border to Pakistan to join up with the anti-India insurgency raging in Kashmir. He developed a schoolboy enthusiasm for AK-47s. Then Khalid announced there was no point studying because, in his words, "Everyone is going to die anyway." The couple had to make a decision. "We summoned up our courage," says mother Dilshada, "and sent him away...
...Muslims in his home, part of a 16-house Muslim colony. When the mob came, Jafri fired his revolver, injuring a few attackers. Furious, the crowd tore into the colony, dragging out the residents and setting them ablaze. Jafri and his family died. In the Hindu mob was a schoolboy, Roshan, 12. From a safe distance, he claimed, he saw Jafri's daughters being stripped and raped. He sounded frightened but admiring. When he grew up, would he do that? "Maybe not rape," he said thoughtfully, "but I would kill Muslims when they have to be punished...
This transcendent moment erased two days in which Bush blinked his way through TelePrompTered remarks like a schoolboy reciting his lessons. In one of those staged events that are designed to look candid but fail utterly, he paced behind his desk during a photo-op phone call with Mayor Rudy Giuliani, accepting the mayor's invitation to tour his city's wreckage. Bush looked like a nervous teenager making weekend plans, especially in contrast to Giuliani, who was magnificent during New York City's darkest hour. (He had worn a New York fire department cap, and he deserved to wear...